Mangalyaan

Mangalyaan

Mangalyaan launched into space on
November
5th,
2013
and
is now
unknown km from Earth.
Its primary destination
is
Mars,
which
it arrived at on
September
24th,
2014
.
Wherever Mangalyaan goes, it carries its trusty
camera, methane sensor, particle analyzer, photometer, and spectrometer.
Mangalyaan often chats with humans from
ISRO

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), informally referred to as Mangalyaan, is India’s first interplanetary space probe. Mangalyaan aims to demonstrate the technologies needed for the country’s flagship interplanetary mission. During its orbit of Mars over six to ten months, the space probe will also conduct surveys of the Martian surface, mineral composition and atmosphere. India is the fourth space agency to have a space probe successfully reach Mars, after the Soviet space program, NASA and the European Space Agency.